Fans of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age franchise are known to return to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Origins, the very first game, for a hearty kick of nostalgia. To this day, some fans consider it to be their favorite title in the series for its dry humor, wonderful characters, and edge-of-your-seat storyline.Thankfully, even fans who return to the game will have something new to discover. It's true that Dragon Age: Origins is an entirely different experience depending on the Origin you choose, which companions you befriend, what choices you make, and more - but it even goes beyond that. Hidden throughout the world are little easter eggs to pop culture, other video games, and more meant to be discovered by discerning players. Here, we outline our favorite lesser-known easter eggs of this expansive title.Updated August 21, 2021, by Gabrielle Huston: Much like an Elder Scrolls, Fable, or Witcher game, games in the Dragon Age series are not short on surprises for fans. This could be something as simple as a statue in a village or as elaborate as a mainline story quest. In honour of Dragon Age Week, this article has been updated to include a few brand new Easter Eggs that you can discover in-game!
15 Thedas' Origin Story 🔯
The name for the world of Dragon Age actually comes from the BioWare forums. Before the name of the fictional land had been released, fans simply referred to it as The D.A.S. - it was an acronym for "The Dragon Age Setting."
When the game was released, its name was exactly that: Thedas. This is an adorable nod to the fans who 🥀supported these developers from the franchise's beginning.
14 📖 T.🗹O. Hanoi's Grave
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The Towers Of Hanoi is a simple board game that BioWare loves to slip into their video games. It involves moving circular disks in piles across three "towers" so that all the disks are sorted from smallest to largest on the other side of the board. It's appeared in Mass Effect more than once, Jade Empire, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and during Dragon Age: Inquisition. Unsurprisingly, a reference also pops up in Origi🌺ns.
When you get to Haven, there are gravestones that you can approach and read.🐎 Many of them are references to one thing or another but one specifically refers to Hanoi. It reads: "T.O. Hanoi. Unloved, unmourned" - probably a joke about the game's difficulty.
13 🍰 Edwina The Bartending Mage
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At the end of Baldur's Gate 2 - a game that BioWare worked on before making Dragon Age - a mage named Edwin is turn🌼ed into a woman while trying to get access to ma🍎gical secrets. Well, fans will be happy to know they can see her again - because she appears in Dragon Age: Origins.
Edwina is a bartender in Denerim at the Gnawed Noble Tavern. She's wearing a red dress akin to the red robes donned by Edwin in Baldur's Gate. Edwina was clearly great at her job because she went on to also make an appearance in the Hanged Man durin✃g Dragon Age 2.
12 Thedas' Superman 𓂃
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Dragon Age: Origins included a random encounter mechanic that you could be hit with as you journeyed throughout Thedas. A blood trail on the map showed your path between regions and, occasionally, it could be interrupted by a symbol of two crossed sw🌟ords.
This meant you'd happened upon a random encounter. Some were meant to be discovered at certain moments, whereas others were entirely luck-based. The one known as 🌠The Crater was one of these luck-dependant encounters.
In it, you come across an elderly couple, Jon and Marta, who are staring into a huge hole in the earth. Their conversation reveals that something falling from the sky made contact here and now there's a child at the bottom of the hole.
The couple chooses to take the boy home and raise him as their own, and you can go into the crater to find Meteor Metal Ore which creates a unique sword when given to Mikhael Dryden. If you hadn't 🐷guessed it already, it's a ༒reference to the origin story of Superman.
11 Leaving The Bartender With A Mess ꦏ
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Plenty of people are familiar with the nod to Star Wars: A New Hope towards the end of Dragon Age: Origins - you must save the Queen, Anora, and upon unlocking her cell door, she comments that you're "a little short for a guard" (just like Leia said to Luke when they me🌟t). However, you may not have caught this much more subtle call-back.
Much earlier in the game, upon exiting the tutorial and reaching Lothering, you can enter a local tavern. This is how you meet Leliana. However, when you go inside, Loghain's men recognize you and attack. If you talk to the barkeep afterward, one of your dialogue choices is: "Sorry about the mess." It's something that Han Solo says to the barkeep in Mos Eisley after killing Greedo.
10 ✃ ✅Mass Effect's Elevator Rides
There's a thinly veiled joke about the first Mass Effect game - and its infamously long elevator rides - which hid loading screens - in Dragon Age: Origins. When you traverse the Dead Trenches, a fortress in the Deep Roads, 🃏you can find a Codex Entry entitled Load Limit Reached.
The first line is "Mass will have an effect,"🌃 solidifying the reference to Bioware's sci-fi RPG. The narrator of the entry goes on to talk about a dwarf named Shepard and the boring conversation that the narrator has with him as theyꦑ wait to be brought up a shaft by a cage hoist. It implies that the narrator killed Shepard with an axe, just to avoid this small talk.
9 Thedas' Jane Austen 🅺
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Another Codex Entry holds an easter egg for the discerning reader. It's called History of the Circle and is found during the Magi Origin or at Mage Asunder in the Fade. It begins with the line "It is a truth universally acknowledged..." which is the famous first line of Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice. The tone of this entry mimics the tone of Austen's writing: sarcastic, witty, and formal.
Mary Kirby and Sheryl Che♛e were both writers for Dragon Age: Origins and fans of Austen's works. Though the BioWare Dragon Age forums that they wrote on during the time of Dragon Age: Origins are no longer available, long-timไe fans will remember how Chee and Kirby joked on them about making a Jane Austen video game.
8 ღ The One Ring ꧟
Lord of the Rings has had a huge impact on the western fantasy genre and BioWare acknowledges that by including references to it in Dragon Age: Origins, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age 2, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and Dragon Age: Inquisition. One of the references in Origཧins comes in the𓆏 form of a ring called the Ring of the Warrior.
It can be found at multiple places during the game and its DLCs and its description details that this golden ring is "covered in elven script. Whatever the writing says, it's awfully wordy." This is clearly a nod at the One Ring which has engraved elven words in it, but it also seems to take a jab at Tolkein for his "wordy" style oꦑf writing.
7 🍒 Wesley, The Hero Of Ferelden
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There are several Princess Bride references hidden in Dragon Age: Origins. One of the fans' favorites is found towards the end of the game. During the landsmeet, you are sent to the Arl of Denerim's Estate to rescue th🍃e Queen, 🃏Anora. When you try to leave the estate, a loyal soldier of Loghain's, Ser Cauthrien, rallies the guards and tries to stop you.
There are several different ways that the player can get out of this situation. However, one of the most aggressive options they're offered is prompted by a dialogue response: "Death First!" That's exactly what Wesley screams at Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride.
6 Sten Would Hate GLཧaDOS ♔
At the end of a Dragon Age game, there♕'s usually an epilogue in which you celebrate your victory and talk to your companions to hear🐟 their thoughts. At the end of Dragon Age: Origins, this occurs in the throne room in Denerim.
Sten is definitely a little out of place in this room, surrounded by humans. When you talk to him, he'll note that he thought there would be cake. Why he thought that is anyone's guess - perhaps he just heard that humans like to have cake at celebrations and assumed it was mandatory, or he overheard the servants discussing the menu? Sten goes on to say that the "cake is a lie."
Some fans will instantly recognize this line as a reference to the Portal franchise. In those games, GLaDOS will keep promising to give you a cake for your birthday if you do what she says - but she never does. There are cryptic messages written on the walls from someone who seems to have been there before you that warn you: the cake is a lie.